Bug#806592: vdr: Fails to start without video directory

[Paul Menzel]

Package: vdr
Version: 2.2.0-5
Severity: important

Dear Debian folks,


`/var/lib/video` does not exist on my system and therefore VDR fails to
start.

```
$ systemctl status vdr
● vdr.service - Video Disk Recorder
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/vdr.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sa 2015-11-28 07:59:50 CET; 22min ago
  Process: 1343 ExecStart=/usr/bin/vdr (code=exited, status=2)
  Process: 1305 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh /usr/lib/vdr/merge-commands.sh reccmds (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 975 ExecStartPre=/bin/sh /usr/lib/vdr/merge-commands.sh commands (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 1343 (code=exited, status=2)

Nov 28 07:58:05 myhostname systemd[1]: Starting Video Disk Recorder...
Nov 28 07:59:46 myhostname vdr[1343]: [1343] ERROR (tools.c,441): /var/lib/video: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
Nov 28 07:59:50 myhostname systemd[1]: vdr.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT
Nov 28 07:59:50 myhostname systemd[1]: Failed to start Video Disk Recorder.
Nov 28 07:59:50 myhostname systemd[1]: vdr.service: Unit entered failed state.
Nov 28 07:59:50 myhostname systemd[1]: vdr.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 28 07:59:50 myhostname vdr[1343]: vdr: can't access video directory /var/lib/video
```

Should the start script at least create that directory, so that VDR
continues running. I understand that one could argue, that this is not
desired, as the partition, `/var/lib/video` exists on, could run full.


Thanks,

Paul


PS: I’ll contact the mailing list, why `/var/lib` is used to store
videos. That fundamentally violates the FHS [1] in my opinion.


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.19.0-trunk-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages vdr depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.58
ii  init-system-helpers    1.24
ii  libc6                  2.19-22
ii  libcap2                1:2.24-12
ii  libfontconfig1         2.11.0-6.3
ii  libfreetype6           2.6.1-0.1
ii  libgcc1                1:5.2.1-25
ii  libjpeg62-turbo        1:1.4.1-2
ii  libstdc++6             5.2.1-25
ii  libsystemd0            228-2

Versions of packages vdr recommends:
ii  fonts-freefont-ttf  20120503-4
ii  lirc                0.9.0~pre1-1.2
ii  ttf-bitstream-vera  1.10-8

Versions of packages vdr suggests:
pn  vdr-plugin-dvbsddevice  <none>

-- debconf information:
* vdr/select_dvb_card: Terrestrial
  vdr/create_video_dir: false
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